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Tuesday, November 01, 2016

Jacoby Baker was shot outside the 7-Eleven (left) on October 15. He died last night, one hour after he was shot again near the flagpoles (right). | Google, Chicago Police Department

Most people manage to go through life without ever being shot.

Jacoby Baker managed to get shot twice in two weeks—both times in the 1100 block of West Wilson.

The second shooting, at 6:55 p.m. last night, killed the 24-year-old Black P Stones gang member.

Even though Baker was gunned down outside of Truman College and steps from the Wilson CTA station at the tail end of rush hour, virtually every witness who spoke with police claimed to have not seen or heard anything.

Nonetheless, an officer at the scene said “we got shell casings all over, ” and a CWBChicago editor counted ten evidence markers in the middle of Wilson Avenue. One marker for each empty shell casing the gunman left behind.

A 911 caller reported seeing a light-colored Honda speeding away from the scene moments after Jacoby fell to the ground with a bullet in his gut.